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Friday, August 3, 2012

FO Friday #52 - A Massive Multnomah

Happy Friday everyone.

I am so excited for today because my very dear friend (and her family) arrive for a visit from Australia. Yippee!

I am also excited to show you today's FO because it really felt like a marathon effort. I made my Nan a shawl a few months ago for her birthday while she was recovering from a knee replacement. My Nan lives in Wales and when I last spoke with her, I discovered that her lovely shawl has been "borrowed" by her sister who has recently moved into a nursing home. So, I decided to make one for my Aunty Pat too. Likes my Nan's, I wanted it to be big and squishy. Well, this certainly fits the bill!

The yarn was a pleasure to knit with. It has a lovely shine and is very soft. The garter stitch was the perfect choice to created a soft and squishy fabric. I only blocked this lightly to preserve that quality (and because the shawl is kind of massive).

Needle: 4.5mm on a 40 inch circular

Modifications:

As I stated above, I used a worsted weight yarn for this shawl and increased my needle size as appropriate. I kept knitting the garter until I had enough stitches for 10 feather and fan repeats on each side. (I did even have to do the math as the lovely designer had done it for me). In the end, it measures 25 " x 64".

When I draped this finished object over my shoulders for the first time, I could not believe I was going to give it away. But I will... after I show it off to my friends ; )

Happy long weekend to my Canadian friends. I am going dedicate it to showing my jet lagged aussie company a good time.

13 comments:

It's gorgeous! I love how the same pattern can turn into such massively different finished objects. I made my Multnomah with fingering yarn and it's MUCH smaller... thus I'm blocking it more heavily ;)

How sweet! I wish I could do that pattern, but it is too much like feather and fan, which puts me to sleep! LOL. After an afghan of feather and fan early in my knitting life I cannot even think of doing anything like it. But it makes such a lovely shawl.